BVB Under-19 are Bundesliga-West Champions!

A guest piece by Laurin; Featured image courtesy of Jasmin – give them a follow on Twitter!

On Sunday afternoon Borussia Dortmund’s U19-squad clinched the Bundesliga-West title with a dominant 6-0 win over MSV Duisburg. Christian Pulisic and Felix Passlack were on the scoresheet with the latter leading the celebration-chants afterwards.

With only one game left in the season and five points ahead of Schalke’s U19, the young Borussia secured their spot in the Bundesliga play-offs, where they will meet the second of the U19 Bundesliga-South in the semi-final. The first leg will be played on May 10th, 8pm at the Westfalenstadion (Admission free!) and the opponent will either be TSG Hoffenheim or 1860 Munich.

Seven of those players who were crowned U17 Bundesliga Champions in 2015 under coach Hannes Wolf, beating VfB Stuttgart 4-0, were also found on Sunday’s teams sheet.

The spectators at “Fußballpark BVB Hohenbuschei 1” had to wait until the 24th minute until Felix Passlack’s header broke the deadlock. Ten minutes later centre-back Jan Binias scored from the edge of the box after a corner in his first start since December 2014.

Shortly before the break Duisburg could have pulled one back but goalkeeper Dominik Reimann denied the penalty caused by a clumsy challenge from Nils Burchardt.

Dzenis Burnic started the second half with two beautiful goals from outside the box (47th and 51st minute). Jacob Bruun Larsen finished a counter-attack in the 72nd minute to make it 5-0 in front of 374 spectators at the BVB training ground.

US international Christian Pulisic capped off the game with a nice lobbed shot over the ‘keeper 09 minutes before the end.